If my club buys a tractor such as the NH TC30, does the small amount of lost HP available at PTO with HST make a critical difference compared with a gear driven 30 horse machine for running rotary cutter. Also, since I'll be doing some cutting in woodland plots with scattered trees, would the HST make it that much easier to maneuver while cutting.
Rotary Cutter ROTARY CUTTER FOR FOOD PLOTS
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John_Mc
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You should have enough HP to drive a 5 foot cutter whether you go with gear or HST on your TC30. One advantage of the HST is that you can keep your RPMs up, and vary your forward speed to match the load. If it starts to bog down, just back off a bit on the HST pedal. With a gear tractor, you don't have this infinite variability. If 2nd gear is moving you too fast and starting to bog you down, you have to drop to 1st gear (there is no 1.5 or 1.7 gear)
I'm biased, however. After growing up driving gear tractors, I bought my first HST in 2001. For the kind of work I do, I'm never going back.
John Mc
I'm biased, however. After growing up driving gear tractors, I bought my first HST in 2001. For the kind of work I do, I'm never going back.
John Mc
